(I) Anecdotal History of the Science of Sound to the Beginning of the 20th Century (2) Klänge und Geräusche

Abstract

THE study of the history of physics is not popular among physicists, and fewer textbooks now use the historical method of presentation . But is lack of time or space the only factor? Admittedly the undergraduate must labour under the increasing bulk of physics, and the mature worker must in addition grapple with the tangle of inference, extrapolation and philosophy encountered in atomic physics. If theory be placed before fact and science be regarded as the pursuit of truth (in any philosophical sense), then the history of any branch of physics presents one long succession of human ‘error’. In such circumstances the psychologist would not be surprised to find that the history of physics was an unpopular subject amongst practising physicists.

(I) Anecdotal History of the Science of Sound to the Beginning of the 20th Century

By Prof. Dayton Clarence Miller. Pp. xii + 114 + 16 plates. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.

(2) Klänge und Geräusche:

Methoden und Ergebnisse der Klangforschung, Schallwahrnehmung, Grundlegende Fragen der Klangübertragung. Von Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Trendelenburg. Pp. viii + 235. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935.) 25.80 gold marks.